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Month: June 2012

I have heard that there are gardeners in the world who don’t love roses and I think I can almost understand why. For starters, they’re pretty common and might not appeal to gardeners who prefer oddities and rarities. To that I’ll just show one of my annual portraits of Rosa chinensis ‘Viridiflora’ (below left). That […]

Marjorie’s European Tour, 1903-1904 Taken from letters to her mother, Bessie JUNE 1903 — On board the Deutschland, and Paris On June 4, 1903, nineteen-year-old Marjorie Van Wickle set sail from New York on board the Hamburg Amerika Line’s luxury ocean liner, Deutschland. Bessie and William McKee were at the dockside to wave goodbye as […]